Unit 4 · Relationships
How to run a Spearman correlation in SPSS
Use Spearman's rho in SPSS for ordinal or non-normal data and report rs in APA style.
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Spearman's rho
Spearman correlates the ranks of scores instead of the raw values. Use it for ordinal data, skewed data or data with outliers.
Output1 [Document1] – SPSS Statistics Viewer
Output
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Nonparametric Correlations
Correlations
Correlations (nonparametric)
*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
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Spearman's rhoRequested from the same Bivariate dialog: untick Pearson and tick Spearman. The table title changes to show it's nonparametric.
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Correlation CoefficientRead it like Pearson's r: here rho = .376, a moderate positive relationship.
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Sig. (2-tailed).017 is below .05, so the relationship is significant.
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